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Newspaper Page Text8 Epilepsy, Fits “My son was cured of a very *»ad case of epilepsy with Dr. Miles’ Nervine.” MRS. D. BAKER, Cleveland, O. “My little daughter who was afflicted with St. Vitus’ Dance is now entirely well after taking | Dr. Miles’ Nervine only four I months.” MRS. C. G. BENNETT, Alma, Mich. Epilepsy, Fits, St. Vitus* Dance and Spasms, are all nerv ous diseases. They have been cured in so many instances with Dr. Miles’ Nervine that it is reasonable to conclude that it is almost sure to cure you. \\ ith nervous diseases of a severe type, persistent use has almost invariably resulted in a complete cure or lasting benefits, worth many times the cost of the rem edy. The best evidence you can get of its merits is to write to those who have used it. Get a bottle from your druggist. Take it all according to directions, and if it does not benefit he will re turn your money. BIG ST. BERNARD DOG BURIED WITH HONORS CHICAGO. April 20. —Prince, a St Bernard dog. belonging to Francis Draz. if Seattle, started from New York last week, across the continent to see his 1 master. During a few days’ stop over tn Chicago he contracted a bad cold which quickly developed into pneu monia. Although E. C. Sullivan, under whose care Prince was seeing the sights, sum moned a veterinary surgeon, the big St. Bernard died. Mr. Sullivan immediately planned a funeral for the animal, which had savec no less than nine lives and had taken prises at shows throughout the coun try. Prince has been laid away in a copper-lined coffin, decorated with flow ers. Services were conducted by Mr. Sullivan and a party of friends. ALA BAMA FARMER BRUTALLY MURDERED ANNISTON. Ala.. April 38.—J B. McGlurkin. t well known farmer and miller, aar mur dered south of this city this momlr g. He vas I: knocked down and beaten into Insensibility with a pole, and a heavy rock was dropj»ed L on his head, beating it to a jelly. 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It is quite a general conviction among men who know the inside history of events of 1860 that the election of Abra ham Lincoln as president was due to the, tariff and not the result of slayery agita- ■ tlon. If such be true the civil war was more directly due to the tariff than to slavery. James G. Blaine took this view of the matter, and expresses it fully in his “Twenty Years in Congress.” He points out that the national excitement over “Bleeding Kansas ' was mucu stronger in 1556 than in 1860. and that in • spite of this fact the country went Dem ocratic in UM and Republican in lbW. To Pennsylvania he gives the credit of hav ing turned the scales. It was then said of Pennsylvania as it has later been raid of New York, that as It goes in a national election, so goes the union, in the guber natorial election of IS6O. Curtin, afterward war governor, made the tariff question the issue, and won on a high tariff platform. The same issue was believed to be the one that gave the vote of Pennsylvania to Lincoln, and If that be true, it was the issue that gave Lincoln to the union. • • • In the presidential election of 1856 there was not much said about the tariff. The Walker tariff had worked so well, at least to outward appearances, that the whole country seemed to acquiesce in it. But the following year found the strong boxes of the government overflow ing with money to such a degree that it became necessary to reduce the reve nues. A bill providing the lowest tariff in the history of the country w/is then introduced. It was not long in reaching the point of consideration. There was much parliamentary maneuvering in the house and senate. The latter body domi nated the situation, and secured the pas sage. in practical entirety, of the meas ure introduced by Senator R. M. T. Hun ter, of Virginia. • • • One of the most remarkable things about the tariff of 1857 was that many in dustries which were dominated by a thorough-going protection spirit, did all they could, and actually spent much mon ey to make the bill as nearly a free trade measure as possible. It was shown that a single mill had spent $87,000 in its cam paign for free trade. These manufacturers knew full well that there was no chance of protection for their products. Their next best course was to secure free raw material, and their energies were spent in that direction. • • • It was not long after this until the panic of 1857 came on. All protectionists attribute it to the low tariff. All free traders do not. Most historians take mid dle ground and And causes not dissimilar to the panic of 1907. Be that as it may, the following year saw such deficits in the revenues that Justin S. Morrill hit off the situation by saying that the government was “obliged to go to bed without its supper” every time imports fell short a million dollars a week at the port of New York. However, the low water mark of treasury receipts was reached just about the time the measure Went into ef fect, and from that time on there was a steady rally back to normal conditions. • • • When the first session of the thirty sixth congress met. Mr. Morrill, of Ver mont, introduced practically the same tariff measure he had tried in vain to THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1903, have considered the previous year. His bill was really more satisfactory to the low tariff people than to the advocates of protection. It was stated that it was but little more than a recurrence to the Walker tariff, the only difference of im portance being that specific duties were inserted instead of ad velorem rates. The bouse passed the measure, but the senate decided to postpone consideration until the next session. Jefferson Davis favored the Morrill bill, asserting that it was a more Democratic tariff than the one of 1857, and adhered more closely to the rates of the Walker tariff. • • • • When the second session of the thirty sixth congress met, the senate put 156 amendments onto the Morrill bill, 155 of which were accepted by the house, and the measure went into effect in April, 1861. After this came a succession of tar iff acts for raising funds for the prose cution of the war. One was passed In August. ISGI, and carried with it an in come tax, as well as a direct tax of 120.0C0.000. Another placing a new rate of, duty on tea, sugar and coffee, was passed during the following December. In 1862 the tariff was raised even higher, and only ninety-nine articles were left on the free list. In 1864 still further increases w’ere made and the free curtailed even below the ninety and nine articles. In those days the statesman who could sug gest new subjects for taxation was re garded as a patriot. • • • Immediately following the close of the civil war the burdensome internal reve nue taxes were repealed, and Justin S. Morrill led a movement for a revision of the tariff—upwards. He felt that wool and woolens especially needed additional protection. The house passed his IjJll. The senate thought the matter too Im portant and the weather too warm to consider the measure so late In the ses sion, so they put the bill In cold storage. The following winter, the senate amend ed it and passed it after midnight on Feb ruary 1, 1867. In the house, meantime, Morrill had drafted a new measure and presented it as a substitute for the one already passed. But at the critical time he withdrew his substitute, and through an effort to set tle the matter through a suspension of the rules, everything was lost. A bill passed under a suspension of the rules requires a two-thirds vote, and Mr. Mor rill has reckoned without his host in pre suming that he could get such a majority. • • • In the course of the debate upon the measure Thad Stevens said that it sa vored too much of free trade for him. Another member remarked that if that was a free trade bill, “by the Holy Sail ors he would hate to see one that was a protection measure.” Another man ob jected to the repeal of the duty on cof fee. "Why,” said he, “we need protec tion for coffee. Do we not make a great deal of it? There are many worthy man ufacturers of coffee in the United States. They make it of chicory, beans, peas, rye wheat, dandelion roots and many oth er things. They need protection.” • • • Although the general tariff bill was defeated, the woolens schedule, against the wishes of the wool producers and manufacturers’ associations, was segra gated in a separate bill, and after much complicated procedure in the senate and house, was passed in substantially the form of the schedule of the big btyl. It was about the only time on schedule was ever passed to the exclusion of all oth ers. Even after weathering all the storms of the legislative sea it seemed that the woolens bill was to fall to make a safe anchorage in harbor. Andrew Johnson was president and he and congress were sadly at outs. It was the last day of the session. The president had gone to the capitol with his cabinet, and was in his room off the senate marble room. For three hours the friends of the meas ure awaited news from him. They knew that powerful influences were at work to prevent his signing the bill. At last, with but the fraction of a minute be tween it and the eternal pigeon-hole where defunct bills are entombed, the president signed it. • • • There was nothing done toward revis ing the tariff after this until 8170. Gener al Schenck, the chairman of ways and means that session, reported a measure with revision downward as its keynote. The free traders opposed it because they did not think it went far enough. It was soon discovered that the measure could not stand on Its own merits, so it was coupled onto the Internal revenue bill, and In that shape it went through the house with flying colors. It did not en counter serious obstruction thereafter and was signed by President Grant in July, M7O. There was additional tariff legisla tion in 1872, during the consideration of which the senate and house were at log gerheads over the constitutional prerog ative of the house to originate revenue legislation. • • s At this time, however, it was to the interest of the house leaders to uphold the senate, even to the extent of amend ing to the point of entire substitution. There was as much parliamentary spar ring over the bill of 1872 as ever there was over any tariff bill of its kind that congress has passed. ■ • • Again in 1875 a tariff act was passed. It repealed the 10 per cent reduction that had been made by the act of 1872. Party lines were ignored in both branches of congress when the measure came up. The late Senator Allison and Senator John Sherman were among those who vo ted with the Free Traders on this bill. From 1875 to 1881 the house of repre sentatives was Democratic, and from 1879 to 1881 the Democrats also controlled the senate. During those years and the two that followed, there was much ma neuvering for position on the tariff ques tion, but as one of the three branches of government that must concur in leg islation was always of the opposite po litical faith, there could be nothing ac complished. William R. Morrison, who afterward drew the celebrated horizontal bill, brought forward a measure in 1876 that never got further than the talk stage. In the next congress Fernando Wood, of New York, Introduced a meas ure that was considered in the house, but a motion to strike out its enacting clause I was carried and the measure was thus I killed. • • • In 1872 congress created the tariff com mission. composed of men who were not members of congress. The commission traveled all over the country as far west as St. Paul, visiting 29 cities ano hearing over 600 witnesses who talked to the extent of some 2,600 pages. The com mission recommended a reduction of 25 per cent Sj the average duties. The ' following session of congress w’as the j short one. The forty-eighth congress was I already elected, and was overwhelmingly I Democratic. Things were stormy in the | house, and to secure the passage of the j bill, it was necessary to bring in one of the worst gag rules the house has ever seen. The senate Democratic members of the conference committee refused to serve. William McKinley was one of the l Republicans who voted against the meas- I ure, and Samuel J. Randall, Pennsylvania | Democrat, voted for it. The bill became a law only a few minutes before final I adjournment.—(Copyright, 1909, by Fred- LerU J. Haskin). ____ Women's Cool Million Saves Big Fish Trust Bi MRS. P. A. VALENTINE CHICAGO.—A woman handed over a cool million In cash the other day and saved the huge Booth fish trust. When her husband refused to spend a cent of his money in preventing the great com bine from pounding to pieces on a rag ged financial shore, she opened her own purse strings. Sentiment was her sole motive. She is Mrs. P. A. Valentine, wife of a New York capitalist, whom she married after the death of her first husband, Philip Armour, Jr. W. Vernon Booth, who had been president of the gigantic A. Booth & Co. combine, is her sister’s husband. The A. Booth & Co. trust controlled the entire fish output of the Great Lakes and three-fourths of that of the Atlan tic coast. It foundered, this great com bine. W. Vernon Booth was indicted for alleged falsification of assets. That was the result of one grand jury Investiga tion; there was talk of another. Valentine, heavily involved, declined to aid in any attempt to salvage the wreck. Mrs. Valentine pleaded with him but he was immobile. “For the family’s sake,” was the gist of her argument. But her husband reasoned that it would be throw ing good money after bad. Not so, thought Mrs. Valentine, whe is worth $8,000,000 or so in her own right. “Here’s $1,000,000,” she said, “go to Chi cago and reorganize the company.” Valentine took it and went. A new $7,- 000,000 fish trust is the result. "Won’t I have the laugh on him when it Is proven that the new Booth compa ny is a success?” predicts Mrs. Valen tine, whose $1,000,000 has gone to pay creditors their 20 per cent in cash under the new order of things. Valentine is still pessimistic. READ - THIS! DOTHAN, Ala.—We have been selling the Texas Wonder for years, and recom mend it to any one suffering with any kidney trouble as being the best remedy we ever sold. J. B. YOUNQ. Sold by all druggists. Price $1 by mail from St Louis. ••• THE DEATH OF “RAJAH” Arthur B. Reeve in a highly intereating arti cle on monkeyis In the'January Hampton’s Magazine tells the following story: He was as large as a good-sized Ik>t of five or six, with brown hair and soulful eyes. Rajah was. and he would wear trousers and dig his hands down deep in the pockets like a true sport. With a shirt, collar, and necktie on he would sit at a table, tuck a napkin in his neck, eat with a spoon, pour milk out of a pitcher, and drink out of a cup. use a knife and fork; and wipe bls Ups with a napkin frequently. There were many other things he had been taught to do—there was no science about this*: It was just plain drumming It into bis head in the way that they do for the ani mal shows. Os all the traits shown by “Ra jah,” none was more engaging than bis love for bis keeper. He would stretch out his arms like a big baby to be picked up and carried, and lie was the happiest simian in the house when he got what he wanted. One day five monkeys were taken sick at once and no one seemed to know just what the trouble was. Finally a pathologist found that a parasitic form of bacteria from the neighbor ing turtle pen had Infected them. Three of the monkeys bad already died. “Rajah” was terri bly *1 and lay, for once motionless, on a lit tle bed In the corner of his cage. The only thing that would quiet his moans was the gen tle stroking by bls keeper's hands. In spite of everything the fever gradually got the bet ter of him. In the semi-darkness, one night, the keeper came in to see how “Rajah” was resting He was startled to see a dwarfed bent figure wait ing for him. It tottered pitifully toward him and stretched up its arms as much as to say. “Pick me up.” It was "Rajah.” The keeper bent over and lifted the ape. Tue arms cloaed around his neck with a sigh of relief. The keeper stroked him sorowfully. And there In the dead of night the man-beast died—like a poor, fevered child In its father’s arms. Brains Thomas L. Masson in January Lippincott’s. Brains are common to all parts of the coun try, and traces of them have even been dis covered in summer in Lenox. Bar Harbor and Newport. They are originally used to obtain money, but when money Is obtained by them it usually takes their place. The quality of brains varies in different local ities. Mixed with ginger, they become very valuable. With a spine, they are a necessity In everv household. At one time they influ enced literature, but the discovery was made that literature could do without them. Since then they have been almost exclusively devoted to advertising. Brains are employed In various enterprices. They make bridges, railroads, and other sys tems of transportation. They also create capi tal and are used extensively In evading the law. They mix with water and gasoline, but are ab sorbed by alcohol. Brains are bought and sold in the open mar ket. They may be traded In on the exchange. In Washington and Albany or In other political centers. . . . The best quality, however, are not traded In. Indeed, oftentimes they are not even heard of until long after they have passed away. A 735-Pound Sturgeon A female sturgeon of great size was caught bv the steam trawler Rhodesia on Sunday 280 miles northeast of the Nore lightship. Its length was 11 feet 4 inches. Its girth 5 feet 4 inches, and its weight 735 pounds. The last sturgeon approaching this one In size of which there is record was taken in July, 1905, and weighed 562 pounds. A9t one time the sturgeon was considered so great a delicacy that all taken in the Thames belonged by royal prerogative to the sovereign, hence the designation of the “royal sturgeon.” Up to about 60 years ago sturgeon were fre quently caught in the Thames, and at the be ginning of the last* century one was taken from the river as far up as London bridge. TARIFF JINGLES A Oh, the tax they'd keep on coffee Because it’s raised In Rio; We need protection from that there sec tion For planters In Ohl» G°°d Whiskey costs you no more than “doc- | L | tore d’’ brands. 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The life story of the new wheat king reads like a romance. His remarkable change from forgotten prisoner to gov ernor, is not the most remarkable part of it. Joseph was the youngest and favorite son of a Jewish fanner and stockraiser named Jacob, who lived in Canaan, ac cording to the story told in court cir cles. His brothers, jealous of the favor itism shown him by his father, threw him into a pit to die. His cloak, a won derful garment in many colors, made specially for him, they soaked in blood, and showed it to Jacob, who mourned for months. f But the boy didn’t die In the pit. A party' of Medianite merchants found him in the pit, rescued him. and sold him into the slavery of a tribe of Ishma lites, whd in turn sold him a number of years ago to Potiphar, captain of the roy al guard, who became attached to him and brought him up In his household. There is thought to* be some scandal about Joseph’s life In the Potiphar house hold. The captain of the guards suddenly conceived a great dislike to his favorite slave and threw him into prison for life. While in jail the young refugee’devel oped a wonderful power of interpreting dreams, which eventually came to Pha roab’s ears. His majesty, according to the court gossip, had a strange dream some seven years ago, which every one failed to interpret, till be sent for the S3OO CASH Given to Subscribers of The Semi-Weekly Journal No guess work. A test of skill. Are you going to be one of the lucky ones! How t many squares can you make out of this Square Chart! Hi’ T THE ’< SEMI-WEEKLY —' JOURNAL. The best family and general news, semi-weekly periodical in I the South, and should be in ev ery Southern home. Each column is edited with the utmost care. An intensely interesting serial 1 ""- 1 "1 story is always found in its col mum. umns. The writings by Mrs. W. < -- H. Felton on The Country Homes, Miss Lizzie 0. Thomas on <sur Household, Prof. Andrew M. 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So successful was Joseph in Interpret ing the dream that Pharaolf not only freed him from prison, but made him gov ernor of Egypt with power almost equal to his own. . Joseph is now about 37 years old, is mar ried td Asenath, daughter of Potipherah, the priest of On. The couple occupy a palace near to the Pharaoh. They have two children, Manasseh and Epraim. Around the palace it is thought the —James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture. dream that Pharaoh had in someway foretold the present drouth which has overtaken the land. Anyway, Joseph's first act on becoming governor, over sev en years ago, was to build granaries and set men to work collecting wheat. Many people ridiculed Joseph’s work in collecting so much grain. Egypt was having wonderful crops and the price of wheat was at the lowest point in history.] "Why collect wheat when it is worth so little?” people asked.